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ON-OFF-ON switch. One side to ground. The other side to hot. Junction between coils on the center row of poles.

Except if the guitar has a non typical strings spacing, it makes no difference. A 3 PUs Les Paul of the Norlin era has the same T-Tops in BMN positions, for instance. But the answer depends on the sound wanted, depending itself of the specs involved and on how the mid pickup is wired. So: in...

I agree with your post above (including the idea that a difference of DCR due to temperature won't affect the response of a PU), except on this one if we talk about different pickups : our calibrated lab meters have really more than once measured significant differences of inductance between...

I don't know how to word my answer since we're touching here to the art of making pickups, where factors affect each others... Let's say that a more tightly wound coil should have a higher Q factor, more resistance and stray capacitance but less inductance... ...while more inductance can be...

Example below of raw (not "integrated") electrically induced response on a Dual-Resonance model whose specs make the situation rather clear: the 5.3k coil is almost 3dB louder @ resonance than the 12k coil with same number of turns / same inductance. Vertical steps of 1dB. The pickup was...

Practical differences between guitar pickups and especially between passive ones are largely due to external parameters anyway. I'm often surprised to read about pickups as having a defined and fixed tone when in fact, the simple use of 100' of cable VS a wireless emitter without cable emulation...

Yes, it's correct. All other factors being equal, the difference between a 15k and a 17k pickups would be a slightly louder signal from... the lower DCR (!), whose Q factor would also be a wee bit higher. Now, two pickups of the same model can exhibit exactly the same DCR and different...

It happens (and BTW, I had once the issue with some... RC A4). In such situations, I just change the mag again. Some RC bars leave micro gaps pushing other components to vibrate anyway. Yeah molting a bit the wax is a good idea. Adding wax is still doable too. If it's a problem, any dampening...

I think to have already shared the following test, comparing the effect on electrically induced transients of a compressor pedal VS eddy currents due to a cover. The blue line shows the spikier and faster attack of the same pickup without cover nor compressor. FWIW. :-)

With any pickup, both E strings are located where the magnetic field is potentially stronger than under other strings. I use to share the following link to illustrate that (see each "frontal view" but also the colored pic named "screw poles for a humbucker")...

Your post is an honor for me, Jeremy. I fully appreciate friendly posts these days, given the serious health issues that I'm facing for a while now. I hope life will let me keep posting about a passion that we all share...

Unless a push-pull swaps a tone cap for a simple jumper to ground, the difference noticed when disconnecting a tone cap thx to a push-pull is not due to the cap itself: it's due to a change in the overall resistive load. With two 500k pot, this load is of 250k. With one volume pot and a...

Well, let's agree to disagree, so. :-) At least it's a peaceful and mutually respectful disagreement, far from the endless arguments in which I've been caught during previous discussions about tone caps... I was so tired and disgusted a few years ago that I had even sworn to myself to avoid...

Do me a favor: read my post 35. And consider that it sums up 286 pages of screenshots, in 32 experimental files dedicated to tone caps in my crowded archives. It took years here to collect that...

Sure, differences don't matter if not detected by users, for whatever reason - different ears, gear, settings, wiring... Now I wish a member had left at disposal some comparative samples shared on my Les Paul Forum many years ago: it involved PIO and ceramic caps of the same measured value with...